Western Digital offers an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices, systems and solutions for businesses and consumers alike. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital®, G-Technology®, SanDisk® and WD® brands. Hello - Does WD provide a “BOOTABLE” utility that will inspect, diagnose and repair WD-brand IDE, SATA, internal and external hard drives? I want to be able to insert a CD or DVD disk in to the optical drive of a Windows computer (laptop or desktop) and BOOT that computer from the OS (DOS or Windows) that is ON THAT DISC.then start the utility that is on the same disc and use it to.
Are you wondering if it is possible to recover data from corrupted WD external hard drive? As a matte of fact, many people have such kind of doubt. Here are some related cases:
'Hello! How can I recover data from corrupted WD external HDD? I have a WD external hard drive which contains various kinds of files, but recently I met a problem with the WD external. When I plug it to my PC, it can show as an external device in My Computer. However, when I click the external HDD and attempt to access files inside, Windows Operating System will say the disk drive is corrupted and cannot access the drive. I want to know why Windows reports such kind of error message. How can I fix the problem that external hard drive is corrupted and get back all files inside?'
'My WD portable hard drive stops working normally since system reports disk drive not formatted error when I connected it to my PC. How can I recover data from the WD portable HDD that is not working?'
'It seems that my Western Digital hard drive is corrupted because it is not detected by Windows when I connect it to my computer. How to recover data from WD external hard drive which is not detecting?'
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Recover Data off Corrupted WD External HDD
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If you are unable to access your WD external hard drive when it is corrupted and shows different kinds of error message, you should stop using the external. Especially, you cannot add new data tot the corrupted external hard drive. Then, you can employ iCare Data Recovery Pro to extract files off the corrupted WD external drive. This data recovery software is able to scan the corrupted WD external hard drive and then display all found files in a list so that you can recover them. By using this software, you can recover all types of files such as pictures, office files, music, videos and more from Western Digital external hard drive when it is corrupted. One advantage of this data recovery software is that it enables you to preview some found files such as images and office files.
Steps to Recover Files from Damaged Western Digital Portable Hard Drive
Preparation: Download and install iCare Data Recovery on your computer. Plug the WD portable hard drive to your computer and run the software.
Step1. Select proper scan mode after launching the software.
Step2. Choose the WD portable hard drive as target drive and let the software scan it for lost files.
Step3. You can preview found images and office files. Then, you can select all types of files you need and save them to another storage media.
WD USB Hard Drive Is Not Working on Windows
As you know, USB hard drive is usually used for data storage or data transferring. You need to connect your WD USB HDD to a computer so that you can write or read data on it. If you want to perform data recovery from WD portable hard drive when it is not working, you also need to connect it to a computer. iCare Data Recovery is compatible with almost all Windows Operating System, so you can plug your WD external hard drive to a Windows PC to perform data recovery when it stops working on Windows. Generally speaking, the data recovery software can work on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 / 8, etc.
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The Bottom Line
How can you recover data from corrupted WD external hard drive? You may be unable to access your WD external hard drive when it is corrupted, so you need to rely on data recovery software to perform file recovery. iCare Data Recovery enables you to retrieve files off corrupted Western Digital removable hard drive as long as the disk is not physically damaged, so it is necessary to protect your WD removable HDD from being physically damaged before data recovery.
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Need to retrieve data from Western Digital Partition?
“My 2 TB WD partition is showing me error message like “Disk need to be formatted, would you like to format it now?' on my Windows PC. I am tired of finding the solution to this problem and want to get over it. Is there any recovery software that helps me to restore my Western Digital partition data?”
Yes…! You can definitely recover data from Western Digital partition via a Windows or Mac computer, but for many of the users recovery of data from WD partition is tough task. However, there are times when users lose their important files and folders, because of some uninvited reasons, and suffer data disaster. In this situation most of us get panic and assume that lost information can’t be retained and get upset. Just relax..! No need to get worried, are there is 100% chances of lost, deleted, formatted, and RAW partition recovery from Western Digital hard disk drives using strong recovery software.
Western Digital hard disk drives are most preferred hard disk drives to store computer information, as they offer excellent read write speed, large space to save digital data and considered as reliable and safe hard drive. Unfortunately, apart from all these good qualities there are some downsides, due to which you need to carry out WD partition recovery.
How Data Loss Occurs from a Western Digital Hard Drive Partition?
There are many reasons because of which you may lose information from Western Digital partition. Some of the reasons are mentioned below:
- Accidental Deletion: It is termed as one of the main cause for losing data from WD partition, at times because of some distraction, user may delete the files and folders from wrong drive and lose all the important information and suffer data disaster.
- Virus Infection: Virus infection may force you to perform WD partition recovery. When your drive gets affected by virus, it may start responding in an improper way on your clicks and in worst situation your drive may even restrict you from accessing it.
- Repartitioning Errors: Similar to other hard drives WD hard drive; allow you create partitions, in order to improve the system efficiency. However, errors occurred during the reformatting process may lead to data loss.
- Use of third party software: There are times when user makes use of third party software in order to create free space on the drive, or at times to remove virus elements user carry out antivirus scan, which sometimes turn your health Western Digital partition into inaccessible.
Western Digital Partition Recovery Software - Remo Recover!
You might be tried of finding an answer to above stated question. Your search comes to an end here at Remo Recover, as it a perfect Windows 10 partition recovery tool. With Remo Recover you can easily recover lost data from WD hard disk. It is an award winning hard drive recovery software that is designed by a team of world-class experts to recover erased partition on external hard drive. It is incorporated with high tech and advance recovery techniques using which software recovers files and folders from Western Digital partition that are lost due to above mentioned reasons. You can easily recover partition on WD disk and other popular brands of hard drives using this prominent tool. Remo Recover can also be used to restore permanently deleted files on Windows partition, as it supports recovery of data from almost all versions of Windows operating system. Computer data like audios, videos, documents, etc. can be rescued at your fingertips, by employing this tool. Software help you to recover deleted data from external hard drive formatted with the file systems like FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, etc in few simple clicks, by just downloading the demo edition of the software you can check out more attribute of the tool. It works well with Windows 10, Windows 8, XP, etc. and on all Mac OS X including the latest High Sierra.
Steps to recover Data from Western Digital Partition:
1: Connect your Western Digital hard drive to the system. Launch the installed demo edition of software on your Windows computer. Welcome screen appears with two different recovery options 'Recover Files', and 'Recover Partitions', as shown in Figure 1. Choose 'Recover Partitions' option. Then, a list of physical and logical drives available in the system are displayed. Now, choose your Western Digital hard drive from the list and click 'Scan' button to initiate scanning
Figure 1: Welcome Screen
2: Now the software scans the western Digital hard drive to find lost/deleted partitions. Once scanning is completed, a list of found partitions are displayed. Choose the required partition which you want to recover and click 'Scan' button, as shown in figure 2.
Figure 2: List of Found Partitions
3: The software now scans the selected partition to find lost files. Once it completes scanning and recovery process, you will see a list of recovered files in 'Data iew', and 'File Type View' as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Recovered Data View
4: Now, click on 'Save Recovery Session' option to save the entire scanned and recovery information. So that you can resume the recovery process later, from where you left and continue recovery process without rescanning the hard drive again. Using 'Open Recovery Session' option you can resume the recovery process any time, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Save Recovery Session
Step 5: Finally you can preview the recovered files using its 'Preview' button to evaluate the recovery results before saving the files.
Figure 5: Preview Recovered Files
Step 6: At last, if you are satisfied with the tool, then purchase the complete edition of the tool and save the recovered files at the location of your choice
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Figure 6: Save Recovered Files
Precautionary steps to be taken after data loss and before data recovery:
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- Avoid the usage of Western Digital partition from where data is lost.
- Do not perform formatting and reformatting process.
- Do not install or reinstall the operating system.